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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appears poised to win more than 50 percent of the vote in this weekend’s presidential election and thus avoid a run-off. Polling suggests that Putin will be the choice of about 60 percent of voters. This is well below the 71 percent he won in 2004 and the 70 percent his hand-picked successor, Dimitry Medvedev, garnered in 2008. Nonetheless, should Putin perform as polls suggest, it will mark a strong showing by a politician who seemed in trouble just a few months ago. …

Prince William and Kate Middleton will be married at Westminster Abbey on Friday, April 29, 2011. A columnist writing in the British newspaper The Independent recently exclaimed, “Having gone to such …

Some rights reserved by GabeMc (CC-BY-SA).Roger Waters performing “Another Brick in the Wall” during The Wall Live tour in Denver, Colo., on Nov. 23, 2010. Nearly every morning, I stroll past a chunk …